Friday, October 5, 2007

YU Xiang: A Gust

About the Poet: YU Xiang is one of the key figures among the Post-70s poets, currently living in Jinan, Shandong Province. After years of engagement with contemporary art and music, she became devoted to writing around 2000. Her awards include the 11th Rou Gang Poetry Prize (2002), top ten women poets in China (2004) and the First Yu Long Poetry Prize (2006). 宇向，诗人、作家。“70后”重要诗人。现居山东济南。参与中国当代艺术、地下音乐、先锋诗歌等活动多年之后，2000年左右开始写作，2002年获“柔刚诗歌奖”；2004年被评为中国当代“最受读者喜爱的10位女诗人”之一；2006年获首届“宇龙诗歌奖”。

You tap my door Like a womanizer dallying with me But Darling, now you can claim to be my man without any guile You may guilelessly become anything at your wish You can turn into a key To enter my lock hole, clicking open my door

You may break my winebottle, smoking my panatela Like a greedy dog prone on the floor Licking my wine. Darling, you are a greedy dog. You open one of my books You open another book of mine You sneak close to my typewriter and peep at my beguiling writing

You cannot wait to enter my body, Darling You may enter it now, creeping in through my crevasse And my pores open wide like honeycomb You may come to the spaces where a man cannot

You make me feel how empty my body has been How it needs filling. You can fill it up And you are connected to a live wire, letting in the current The scream I let out is definitely not out of pain

Another earlier version, there is one more line: My scream will be the life-long jealousy of those in love-making

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Fan (family name), born in 1965 in China, currently in Singapore. There are in this blog: Classical Chinese Poems, Contemporary Chinese Poems, Sylvia Plath in English and Chinese, My own poems in two Languages.... All the translations are mine. My published poetry book Faltering Words contains my selected poem suites not in English.
在此博客上可读到：中国古典诗、中国当代诗、普拉斯诗歌原文和汉译、我自己的双语诗歌。这里的翻译都是我自己做的。除了翻译几本学术著作外，我还有英文学术论文出版于牛津大学；另外已出诗集《期期之言》（组诗选）。